urban knowledge discovery engine
About Us
Urbanixm is a knowledge base, curated with the aid of AI, giving a worldwide overview of the environmental, social and economic impact of urban policy and infrastructure interventions.
Stories
Urbanixm stories are short narratives on the impact of an urban intervention or urban policy, giving a preview of the content of the knowledge base.
Services
Using the Urbanixm knowledge base as a tool we carry out desk research on custom urban topics as well as carrying out varied types of spatial data analysis.
Urban literature research
Urban data research
Technology
Crawling
Our crawlers traverse the web in search of potentially relevant urbanism content. Special attention is given to web-sites dedicated to cities or other urban topics.
Classification
All web-pages encountered by our crawlers are passed through a series of content classifiers that determine if they cover any of the multiple urban topics covered by our system.
Annotation
The relevant web-pages are analyzed further, and we extract quotes that discuss urban interventions, their impact, other useful statistical information, as well the places to which the information refers.
Urbanixm helps those who make our cities a better place
LOCAL AUTHORITIES
Seek inspiration into ways to reach desired outcomes.
Find appropriate support examples for disseminating policy decisions.
- What have other comparable cities done to achieve Vision Zero?
- What has been the impact of comparable cycling network investments in other cities?
URBAN CONSULTANTS
Explore designs that have been tried and tested.
Find good impact examples to communicate design choices.
- Which cities are investing in blue-green infrastructure?
- Where have road-diets resulted in increased economic activity?
CITY THINK-TANKS and NGOs
Access up-to-date research on a specific urbanism topic.
Strengthen their position as though leaders in their area.
- What has been the impact of e-scooters on other transport modes?
- How does decentralization of workplaces impact commute demand?
Team
Börkur Sigurbjörnsson
Founder
Information scientist with competence in software development, search engines, data mining and natural language processing.
20+ years of experience working in startups, academia, commercial research organizations and innovation accelerators.
7+ years working on urban information systems for urban planning and real estate.
Advisors and collaborators
We have assembled a strong international team of advisors and collaborators.
They come from the public and private sector with experience in shaping cities around the globe.
They bring in expertise in urban planning, transport engineering, economics, service design, and more.
